Abroad at Home by Julian Street
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ABROAD AT HOME
by
JULIAN STREET
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THE NEED OF CHANGE
Fifth Anniversary Edition. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. Cloth, 50 cents net. Leather, $1.00 net.
PARIS A LA CARTE
"Gastronomic promenades" in Paris. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. Cloth, 60 cents net.
WELCOME TO OUR CITY
Mr. Street plays host to the stranger in New York. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg and Wallace Morgan. Cloth, $1.00 net.
SHIP-BORED
Who hasn't been? Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. Cloth, 50 cents net.
ABROAD AT HOME
Cheerful ramblings and adventures in American cities and other places. Illustrated by Wallace Morgan. Cloth, $2.50 net.
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[Illustration: The St. Francis at tea-time.--With her hotels San Francisco is New York, but with her people she is San Francisco--which comes near being the apotheosis of praise]
ABROAD AT HOME
American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street
With Pictorial Sidelights by Wallace Morgan
[Illustration]
New York The Century Co. 1915
Copyright, 1914, by The Century Co.
Copyright, 1914, by P. F. Collier & Son, Inc.
Published, November, 1914
TO MY FATHER the companion of my first railroad journey
The Author takes this opportunity to thank the old friends, and the new ones, who assisted him in so many ways, upon his travels. Especially, he makes his affectionate acknowledgment to his wise and kindly companion, the Illustrator, whose admirable drawings are far from being his only contribution to this volume.
--J. S.
New York, October, 1914.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
STEPPING WESTWARD
I STEPPING WESTWARD 3
II BIFURCATED BUFFALO 21
III CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS 40
IV MORE CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS 48
MICHIGAN MEANDERINGS
V DETROIT THE DYNAMIC 65
VI AUTOMOBILES AND ART 77
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Abroad at Home by Julian Street
- 2: Abroad at Home by Julian Street
- 3: Not only in favor of simplicity
- 4: In the next decade doubled its size
- 5: Looking neither prosperous nor busy
- 6: Everyone is dodging everyone else
- 7: Replied the voice of our trusty Hannah
- 8: Gazed down on the vast concourse
- 9: The Grand Central Station is New York
- 10: The gentleman who favored linen mesh was a fat
- 11: Neither of us had been to Bedloe Island
- 12: That petticoat was hanging in her closet
- 13: From a sort of mental sketchbook
- 14: In the Panama Pacific Exposition
- 15: As a Buffalo man remarked to me
- 16: Terrified Buffalonian would gasp and try to tell me all
- 17: How can you muckrake a gallery like that
- 18: Of the ten thousand canvases painted by Corot
- 19: And the Corona coronas I remained her champion
- 20: Ranging all the way from ear muffs to advice
- 21: So we put down everything Elbert Hubbard
- 22: Cleveland boosts intensively
- 23: Cleveland is only a little smaller than Prague
- 24: Is the Union Club of Cleveland
- 25: The Hermits give shows in their clubhouse
- 26: Mistaking it for the site of Cleveland
- 27: Two other Cleveland organizations should be mentioned
- 28: One of the little books about Cleveland
- 29: Cleveland is almost un American in that
- 30: Detroit seems younger than her sisters
- 31: One is a magazine called The Detroiter
- 32: But the plant was moved to Detroit
- 33: Never having seen a dictagraph before
- 34: Of which Detroit boasts a considerable number
- 35: Again Newberry straightened and saluted
- 36: Behind the hearse trailed limousines and touring cars
- 37: But when a Detroit dentist who invented
- 38: I have quoted Baedeker as above
- 39: ' You see he uses the Tosa design
- 40: Prominent citizens of Detroit among them
- 41: If you see Liebold first you never do see Ford
- 42: And as each succeeding chassis came abreast of him
- 43: Ford that ten o'clock would suit me better
- 44: Vice president and treasurer of the Ford Company
- 45: Edison doesn't care anything about money
- 46: Ford without a moment's hesitation
- 47: Sick looking Pullman conductor came and took our tickets
- 48: Either town is about twice the size of Ypsilanti
- 49: Admonished Miss Buck in her easy
- 50: It was at the Sanitarium that I drank Kaffir Tea
- 51: Nuttolene with Cranberry Sauce
- 52: Nuttolene is served in a slab
- 53: Tree bordered streets of Kalamazoo
- 54: Kalamazoo has a Commercial Club
- 55: Should be more accurate in its figures than the Almanac
- 56: And they refrain from bowing to him
- 57: I should think more of Grand Rapids if
- 58: We have always wanted to make beautiful furniture
- 59: Chicago was not only entirely rebuilt
- 60: The Salon has for years been second rate
- 61: Canon Hannay said Chicago reminded him of Belfast
- 62: Chicago unquestionably knows that it is great
- 63: The Blackstone occupies a position
- 64: Saleswomen would rise suddenly from seats
- 65: They do not look like New York saleswomen
- 66: After tearing the manila wrapper
- 67: He got the idea for Dooley from Jim McGarry
- 68: Kiser also continues his column in the Record Herald
- 69: The stockyards has no esthetic value
- 70: The French Revolution of which the stockyards reminded Dr
- 71: And as it goes along upon its trolley
- 72: With their dainty rose tipped fingers
- 73: The Hinky Dink of the newspapers is
- 74: As between himself and Bathhouse John
- 75: Segregation gives them some rights
- 76: CHAPTER XVAN OLYMPIAN PLAN In city planning
- 77: When the lake front parkway system
- 78: The campus trees are shaded by it
- 79: At the time of the Crerar foundation
- 80: And hurled like giant snowballs dirty snowballs
- 81: But there is the Borden house standing stanch
- 82: I had forgotten all about that crib
- 83: I'm almost a stranger around the alley myself now
- 84: Louis yet lacks municipal distinction
- 85: In a woeful state of dilapidation
- 86: What wonderful things statistics are
- 87: Louis are privately controlled toll bridges
- 88: Discarded on the advent of the cable lines
- 89: And when it comes to lethargy well
- 90: Of vapid canvases by Bouguereau
- 91: For Chicago has more wallop than St
- 92: Of these the first was Vandeventer Place
- 93: The firm of Funsten Brothers Co
- 94: And a member of the firm of Funsten Brothers Co
- 95: Louis of which Pierre Chouteau was president
- 96: Louis and invented the famous rickey
- 97: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- 98: Hannibal that of Becky Thatcher
- 99: Mahan that he remembered when it was erected
- 100: A statue of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- 101: Approach the cave by rowing down the river
- 102: Certainly the driver of the auto hack
- 103: Colonel RoBards is still amiable
- 104: Do you remember Jim Bludso of the 'Prairie Belle'
- 105: Pike County capons and other Pike County essentials
- 106: About the oldtime wedding cooks
- 107: During the evening Colonel Buell
- 108: Next Major Wald ceased to play for himself
- 109: I played poker before you were born
- 110: Clarksville out Hannibals Hannibal
- 111: The Pike referred to in John Hay's poem
- 112: Roberts is a wonder nothing less
- 113: Even through the smoky fog I saw that
- 114: As that paper was the Kansas City Star
- 115: Quite naturally strangers to telephonic subtleties
- 116: Bureaucracy makes the Continental railroads inferior to ours
- 117: Looking down from Kersey Coates Drive
- 118: Kansas City bears more than one resemblance to Minneapolis
- 119: Her fiber is exceptionally firm
- 120: Some of the bronzed cattlemen one sees in Kansas City
- 121: Compared with the old brownstone blocks of New York City
- 122: But Kansas is our real territory
- 123: I'm speaking of stockers and feeders
- 124: A poor owner of a legal right gives a $5 fee to a $5 lawyer
- 125: Whereupon Kansas City turned in
- 126: Condemning the Colonel to one day in jail
- 127: Have you ever heard of the city of Excelsior Springs
- 128: I began to wish to visit Excelsior Springs
- 129: Excelsior Springs is like most other resorts
- 130: Excelsior Springs is the headquarters of the Bill Club
- 131: What would Kansas and Missouri make of them
- 132: In speaking of joining Quantrell
- 133: That's why I joined Quantrell to get quick action
- 134: It was there that the Pinkertons threw the bomb
- 135: Askew was shot dead three months after the bomb throwing
- 136: Bob Younger died in the penitentiary at Stillwater
- 137: Just think what Kansas has been
- 138: The grasshoppers commenced to come
- 139: And of the fine effect of actual prohibition in Emporia
- 140: That is the way they run the Emporia Gazette
- 141: They charge fifty cents for dinner at the Eldridge
- 142: Luncheon at the Eldridge suggests
- 143: Amazingly complete and amazingly advanced
- 144: Kansas has the lowest maximum I know of
- 145: And practicality are Kansas qualities
- 146: And his symptoms are not unlike certain symptoms of pellagra
- 147: President of the Panama Pacific Exposition
- 148: The proprietor of which had once befriended Quantrell
- 149: With the interminable rolling desolation of the prairies
- 150: Often reaching the underflow of western Kansas
- 151: I suppose you've seen cyclones out here
- 152: Who shall say that tumbleweed is useless
- 153: Nor is the Denver gate a barrier
- 154: There is nothing close about Denver
- 155: Denver is particularly American
- 156: Denver owns her own Auditorium
- 157: Denver has her own symphony orchestra
- 158: Containing an interview with Lord and Lady Decies
- 159: Of all these activities Denver
- 160: Reformers of the second type are repulsive
- 161: He never done nothing for Denver
- 162: Denver has little rain and much sunshine
- 163: Remarked the Denver gentleman who sat in the tonneau
- 164: Exclaimed the Denver gentleman after a time
- 165: I heard the gears click as they meshed
- 166: Even the Denver gentleman who occupied the tonneau with us
- 167: The chauffeur looked at the edge
- 168: As he looks at the mountains the ego
- 169: But polo doesn't make civilization
- 170: With the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club at Broadmoor
- 171: Andy Adams' card proclaims him author
- 172: I would gladly become a prospector
- 173: As for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
- 174: Meeker made Greeley a prohibition colony
- 175: And that is what El Pomar does
- 176: Cripple Creek is not only above the timber line
- 177: The door of the crib at the corner stood open
- 178: Thinking of Denver as a mountain city
- 179: I made no excursion to Saltair Beach
- 180: Besides my preconceptions as to the city
- 181: And Mormon aggressions of all kinds
- 182: Over whom Brigham Young became the leading power
- 183: Of the Mormon families are at present polygamous
- 184: Nine are not under Mormon control
- 185: In trying to understand the Mormons
- 186: When the manifesto against polygamy was issued
- 187: Smith I hardly knew how to begin
- 188: How many children and grandchildren have you
- 189: Aren't you going to sit up for Elko
- 190: And Mabie for Hamilton Wright Mabie
- 191: At last the walls of the canyon began to melt away
- 192: Like a New York ferryboat down to its very smell
- 193: Meeting Californians outside their State
- 194: With her hills San Francisco is Rome
- 195: Nobody had ever heard of Portola until then
- 196: San Francisco is notoriously sensitive upon this subject
- 197: Another quake might kick over another building
- 198: Where ripe olives are a specialty
- 199: He will frequently pay the newsboy with a nickel
- 200: Makes a colorful spot in the center of Chinatown
- 201: That took taxis right up stairs
- 202: To the mural decorations and the lighting
- 203: He was off Born a drowsy Spanish hamlet
- 204: So I pointed in the direction of Mount Tamalpais
- 205: But we have an engagement to lunch
- 206: I said to the telephone operator
- 207: I am writing something about San Francisco
- 208: Everyone is dodging everyone else
- 209: Presently you get your turn at a sloppy washbowl
- 210: The Redcaps run beside the vestibule